TC Academy Goes Live
….from pilot to reality….. In the TV business, one first does a pilot. If it rates it goes to series. In March of this year, we ran a pilot of our Travel Channel Academy in partnership with The Travel...
Read moreKGTV Part 4
…now we’ve reached critical mass…. This week, we returned to KGTV for the fourth VJ (or as they call it here), DC (for Digital Correspondent) bootcamp. There are 10 journalists, camerapeople, editors, producers as well as one assignment editor...
Read moreYou Won’t See This on Local News….*
Just in from 5Takes Latin America….. Here is the most recent vlog from ‘tj’ Erika as she and 4 others make their way across Latin America. (Glad to see you found it) We supplied them with video cameras, laptops...
Read morePutting The Future on Hold?
hello… hello…. do you hear me now? When we did the Bootcamp last week in Miami, we offered three kinds of cameras for the students to use: Sony Z1, Panasonic DVX100 and Canon HV-20A. The first two are fairly...
Read moreBeyond Mentos and Coke Bottles….
The Class of 05/07 On Sunday afternoon we concluded the first ‘pilot’ of the Travel Channel Academy VJ training course. It was a great success.
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Day 2
so far…. so good Second day at the Travel Channel Academy and things are going quite well. Our group of 20 students have shot their first piece and they are in the middle of cutting it. We will screen...
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